While the new tour structure may have helped some of the younger players in the sport to climb up the rankings, it has also helped to hasten the slide of some of the more experienced players who have been relegated from the circuit this summer. Click below for my look at some of the bigger names to have fallen off the tour after 2010/11…
So that’s the first round completed in Sheffield and to give you a picture (no pun intended), of how matters have progressed, here are the very best of my photos so far from the 2011 World Championship qualifiers…
Click here for the full qualifying draw…
Last year I correctly predicted ten of the 16 qualifiers for the 2010 World Championship but can I do any better this time around? There is only one way to find out! Click below for the first part of my preview which will be posted over the next four days…
For those new to the tour, the changes to the rankings this season have been a major positive, allowing them to move up the lists quicker than they might have done in the past. What though about those on the other side of the coin, those whose places they are taking? Click below for a few thoughts on how others have lost out as a result of the changes…
First things first, happy new year to all, hopefully it will be a good one for everyone reading. I’m not generally one for predictions but this seems like as good an opportunity as any to make a few that will no doubt make for some amusing reading later in the year!
With the qualifiers for the German Masters set to get underway on Tuesday, the draw will be determined by the revised seedings list following the UK Championship. Click below to see who the movers and shakers are this time around…
While the professional season has now been completed, the race for tour places for 2010/11 rages on and this week has seen another eight names confirmed via the PIOS route. Click below to see who has already been confirmed for next season and where the remaining names will come from…
It has felt like a long wait since Neil Robertson won the last ranking event back in October but tomorrow (Monday), sees the start of the UK Championship qualifiers as 79 of the 96 main tour players will be in action over the next eight days.
Continue reading this article for my preview and the Order of Play for the qualifiers…